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Introduction What is myth? There is no one satisfactory definition, since myths serve many different purposes. The first purpose was to explain the inexplicable. Since the beginning of humankind's existence, myths have functioned as rationalizations for the fundamental mysteries of life, questions such as: Who made the world? How will it end? Where do we come from? Who was the first human? What happens when we die? Why does the sun travel across the sky each day? Why does the moon wax and wane? Why do we have annual agricultural cycles and seasonal changes? Who controls our world, and how can we influence those beings so our lives are easier?
A Universal Need In the absence of scientific information of any kind, long ago societies all over the world devised creation myths, resurrection myths, and complex systems of supernatural beings, each with specific powers, and stories about their actions. Since people were often isolated from each other, most myths evolved independently, but the various myths are surprisingly similar, in particular creation myths.
So the need for myth is a universal need. Over time, one version of a myth would become the accepted standard that was passed down to succeeding generations, first through story-telling, and then, much later, set down in written form. Inevitably myths became part of systems of religion, and were integrated into rituals and ceremonies, which included music, dancing and magic.
The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and to account for its rites and customs. One constant rule of mythology is whatever happens among the gods reflects events on earth. In this way, events such as invasions and radical social changes became incorporated into myths. Some myths, especially those from the Greco-Roman and medieval periods, also serve to illustrate moral principles, frequently through feats of heroism performed by mortals.
Compelling Stories for Artists But what concerns us most here are the visual interpretations of myths that artists through time have given us. Many myths are such compelling stories that artists have turned to them again and again, reinterpreting them from the vantage point of their own experience and imagination. An artist's representation provides a concrete mental picture of a myth or mythological character, as in the Antimenes painter's image of Athena meeting Herakles with her chariot. In some instances, as with the memorial tusk from Benin, a work of art can trigger a story. While some representations, such as the Egyptian statue of Thoth, are largely dictated by tradition, others such as Maurice Denis's painting of Orpheus and Eurydice, are more personal. Regardless of why or how it was created, each image contributes an added dimension to our understanding or interpretation of that myth.
Many of the images in this collection represent myths that explain a practice, belief, institution, or natural phenomenon. The Yoruba king's crown, the Roman furniture decoration, and the abstract designs on the Lakota dress refer to creation stories. The Bamana antelope headdress symbolizes Chi Wara, who taught the Bamana people how to plant, and the pig carved on a pole evokes a story about traditional Melanesian society of New Ireland.
Hero myths, tales of adventure filled with fantastic beings and superhuman feats, are also represented in this collection. The stories told through the images of Isis, Theseus, the Nio guardians, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, to name a few, present a broad range of heroic acts achieved through clever magic, physical strength, and devout faith.
The Truth About Myths and Legends There are a few images that are about real people or events. These are more properly called legends, to distinguish them from myths, which are imaginary. For example, the story of Nebuchadnezzar is based on the life of a ruler of the ancient Babylonian Empire, and the story recounted on the carved tusk from Benin is based entirely on actual personalities and events. But in each case, the lives of the lead characters are embellished with borrowed or fictional additions. The goal of a legend was not to provide an accurate record of an individual's life, but to portray it as an example of virtuous or evil conduct - with appropriate consequences - to be emulated or avoided. In the legends about Christian saints, historical facts were altered as needed, and emphasis place on miraculous or extraordinary events. The legend about Herbert Hoover is a particular case, because he was still alive when it was consciously created for him to enhance his new status as President.
As the richness of the myths represented in this collection conveys, myth and falsehood are not synonymous. What is truth to one is fancy to another; however, it is not up to any of us to decide that one community's mythology is any more or less valid than another's. Myth is a positive force that unites many cultures rather than divides them. Throughout the world myths provide people with explanations, histories, role models, entertainment, and many other things that enable them to direct their own actions and understand their own surroundings.
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What Is a Roundabout?
A modern roundabout is a circular intersection where drivers travel counterclockwise around a central island. It is engineered to maximize safety and minimize traffic delay, and there are no traffic signals. The entering traffic yields to traffic already in the roundabout, which keeps traffic from locking up and creates efficient traffic flow.
How to Drive in a Roundabout
- Slow before entering. This allows you to anticipate gaps in traffic, and lets drivers in the roundabout know you are preparing to yield.
- Yield to drivers circulating from the left. Look left for vehicles before reaching the yield line. If no vehicles are coming from the left and no pedestrians are in the crosswalk, there is no reason to stop.
- Once you are in the roundabout, you have the right of way and entering traffic must yield to you.
- Stay to the right of the central island. Traffic moves counterclockwise in a roundabout.
- Watch for bicycles and pedestrians when exiting the roundabout, and use your right turn signal to indicate you are exiting.
How to Drive in a Mini-Roundabout
- Yield on entry and move in a counterclockwise direction, just like a full-size roundabout.
- Use a turn signal before entering a mini-roundabout if turning left or right onto a side street. If continuing on the same street, no signal is needed.
- Signaling before entering improves efficiency because of the tighter constraints and shorter reaction times compared to a full-size roundabout.
Benefits of Roundabouts
Modern roundabouts have been shown to:
Modern roundabouts have been shown to:
- Keep traffic moving. Roundabouts reduce stopping, delays, and backups.
- Reduce the number of accidents. Studies also show that accidents at modern roundabouts are typically minor due to lower traffic speeds, and the possibility of dangerous t-bone and head-on collisions is virtually eliminated.
- Reduce vehicle emissions due to decreased idling times.
- Typically cost less to construct than signalized intersections, and eliminate the cost to power and maintain traffic signals.
- Increase pedestrian safety. Pedestrians only cross one direction of traffic before reaching a median.
- Increase green space around and within the center island and along approaching streets. Roundabouts minimize the number of lanes needed to move the same amount of traffic compared to a traditional signalized street network.
Current Roundabouts
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- 1st Avenue & Oakdale Boulevard
Mini-Roundabouts vs. Full-Size Roundabouts
- Mini-roundabouts function just like full-size roundabouts, but are used where space doesn't allow for a full-size modern roundabout.
- Mini-roundabouts have a smaller footprint and can often be constructed within an existing intersection.
- Mini-roundabouts have a smaller, paved central island with a lower curb. This allows long vehicles that require a large turning radius, like a semi or bus, to drive over the central island.
- Full-size roundabouts have larger, landscaped central islands which are not traversable.
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1932 is usually described as the beginning of Thailand's century-long coup season. Once upon a time when I sought to determine when this history of coups began I was surprised to find obscure references to aborted military interventions in national politics in 1912 and 1917. Long since forgotten.
Here on New Mandala we recently hosted a discussion about Thailand's coup history where I suggested that counting the number of coups (attempted and successful) is a complicated business. Often, when somebody asks "how many coups have there been in Thailand?", the final number that is cited is 18 but I fear that this may be a product of force of habit rather than hard number crunching.
So I wonder if the collective expertise of New Mandala readers might help us to more precisely tally up the total coup attempts, and successful coups, in Thai history. Keeping the focus on the 20th century will make matters simpler but I appreciate that some may want to introduce more historical depth. Just to get us started I have my (probably incomplete and inaccurate) list below.
It would be terrific if we could make the list definitive.
As it stands I have 11 "successful" and 9 "unsuccessful" coup efforts in the 20th century for a total of 20. For the more obscure episodes I have added links to other details. But it would be terrific if a final tally could be made, with all of the various categories of coup (plot, attempt, success; to include р╕Бр╕Ър╕П, р╕гр╕▒р╕Рр╕Ыр╕гр╕░р╕лр╕▓р╕г, р╕гр╕▒р╕Рр╕Ыр╕гр╕░р╕лр╕▓р╕гр╣Ар╕Зр╕╡р╕вр╕Ъ, etc) matched against their historical details. Definitional issues are, of course, at stake but we are happy to hear discussion on all of the technical points that matter.
Please share your knowledge to help us count Thailand's military coups once-and-for-all. As new information is added in comments I can put it in this main list which can be revised as often as we like.
Coup (attempt) of 1912
Some details are available here.
Coup (attempt) of 1917
Aborted: Few details seem to exist.
Coup of 1932
Friday, 24 June 1932
Coup of 1933
Tuesday, 20 June 1933
Coup of 1939
Some details are here.
Coup of 1947
Saturday, 8 November 1947
Coup (attempt) of 1948
Some details are available here.
Coup (attempt) of 1949
Saturday, 26 February 1949
Coup (attempt) of 1951 (Manhattan)
Friday, 29 June 1951
Coup of 1951
Thursday, 29 November 1951
Coup of 1957
Tuesday, 17 September 1957
Coup of 1958
Monday, 20 October 1958
Coup of 1971
Wednesday, 17 November 1971
Coup of 1976
Wednesday, 6 October 1976
Coup (attempt) of 1977
Saturday, 26 March 1977
Coup of 1977
Thursday, 20 October 1977
Coup (attempt) of 1981 ("Young Turks")
Wednesday, 1 April 1981
Coup (attempt) of 1985
Monday, 9 September 1985
Coup of 1991
Saturday, 23 February 1991
Coup of 2006
Tuesday, 19 September 2006


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Nokia's nightmare: There's no room for a third ecosystem
Why the mobile-maker faces a gruelling battle
Analysis Humiliatingly, Nokia was forced to deny rumours last week that it was planning to break up and sell its crown jewels to Microsoft. Normally a company can remain impervious to Twitter-born gossip, particularly from a known antagonist.
Acknowledging the rumour simply gives it a chauffeured ride around the internet. But not this time: the 'Microsoft buys Nokia' story fulfils so many conspiracy theories, thousands of people wanted it to be true.
And the notion of Microsoft buying a hardware company and ripping up its licensing business has become much less outlandish after Google's acquisition of Motorola's phone business. Ah, but that was desperation, I hear you say; the Chocolate Factory had miscalculated its IP strategy catastrophically, and it had to grab what patents it could at almost any price.
But there's a whiff of something - it isn't desperation, more like earnest exasperation - around Microsoft's phone business these days. Redmond has got an excellent product, for the first time, and people who have a Windows Phone love using it. But there just aren't many of those folk around. The phones aren't shifting. Christmas has come and gone, and while we wait for some reliable channel figures, Nokia's flagship seems to have made almost no impact on the UK market. It's the phone that leaves no footprints.
So that makes Nokia's American comeback all the more challenging. Your reporter has lost count of the number of thwarted US comebacks Nokia has made over the years - each time the story ends the same way. Either the operator gets cold feet or Nokia gets cold feet first.
In recent years Nokia baiting has become a cruel bloodsport for American pundits and bloggers, the latter even refusing to review Symbian phones on the reasoning that, well, they must be rubbish. After years of being patronised by Europeans and told to catch up, talking heads in the States are now taking their revenge. Europe's dominance turned out to be temporary; the US public is now getting the best gadgets and fastest data networks first - even if the nature of the competition means they're paying a high price for it. And as the industry leader in Europe's 2G dominance, and general bossy boots, Nokia is now getting thoroughly beaten up for missing out.
This is not the most promising position from which to launch your comeback - but then again, expectations are now calibrated so low that any success is going to mean a lot.
Yesterday Nokia launched what's probably its most competitive US product for a decade. You're welcome to contest that claim, of course (fire away!) but bear in mind that the last time Nokia caused a ripple was four years ago. That was with a US model of the N95 - marketed under the slogan "this is what computers have become" - which was delivered six months after the Apple iPhone had started shipping.
The Lumia 900 has a fair bit going for it. It's got a modern UI that's really nice to use. It's got the backing of a major operator. And it's bang up to date with advanced network technology - it'll be able to use AT&T's LTE data network, which is already live and due to be rolled out in full by the end of next year.
But it also has the drawbacks of The Phone That Leaves No Footprint. The 900 is identical to the 800 but with a larger screen - which brings no additional increase in screen resolution - and larger battery. The 900 also shares the 800's peculiar camp colour palette, which restricts its appeal. And the same harsh square corners - and the camera mirror that scuffs if you so much as breathe on it. All these points have been flagged by multiple reviewers but Nokia seems quite deaf to them, and quite insistent that it's the greatest design ever.
"It looks sleek and progressive on the outside," according to CEO Stephen Elop in a canned promo video. I can understand sleek, but what on Earth does progressive mean here?
The tech bloggers' criticism that it's not cutting edge remains a valid one: compare the screen resolution to the Galaxy S2 or the Razr Android. This matters, not because most punters fit the boy racer category (they don't), but in perception: it's a fast moving market and regular buyers don't want to lock themselves into two-year contracts with something they fear will be obsolete. And how frustrating this must be: the Lumias perform extremely favourably to the competition.
The greater problem for Nokia - and Microsoft - is the nagging idea that there's no room for Windows at the smartphone table, no matter how fabulous it is. Remember that Elop's great gamble at Nokia is to make Windows the 'third ecosystem'. Well, maybe there isn't going to be a third 'ecosystem' in smartphones. Maybe there's going to be Apple, Android, and everything else - BlackBerry, featurephones and dumbphones. After all, there wasn't room for more than two in PCs.
It's too early to tell yet. Nokia has yet to throw its best designers (assuming they haven't all left) or radical innovations at Windows Phone yet. This is very much a product market, one that's crying out for some differentiation at the moment.
But if it turns out to be the case that there are only two 'ecosystems', then the Armageddon option of breaking up the company doesn't look quite so irrational. ®


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TechRadar Verdict
A super sharp display, Haswell chip and gorgeous flexible design make this ultrabook easy to recommend despite its lackluster lasting power.
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Lenovo has been breaking ground in the convertible ultrabook world with its Yoga line. In our Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga review we found ourselves surprisingly pleased with this versatile hybrid laptop and its solid performance. Even if we didn't use the Yoga as a tablet, we often flipped the keyboard back to poke through Windows 8 live tiles or watch some Netflix.
What we didn't like were mostly minor complaints. The keyboard, the trackpad, and the screen were all winners. The absence of a backlit keyboard was a mild annoyance, while the lack of a true 1080 display was a read missed opportunity. At the time, we also expressed concerns that the Yoga was actually exposing some of Windows 8's weaknesses.
With the Yoga 2 Pro Lenovo produced a noteworthy refresh to a device that increasingly looks like it will be a mainstay of the PC maker's lineup for the foreseeable future. A 3200 x 1800 display (known as QHD+, or WQXGA for the truly in the know) is the most significant enhancement, but the new hybrids also have a Haswell processor, some subtle enhancements to the chassis, and a few extra touches in the bundled software.
All things considered, these are all welcome enhancements, although once again, Lenovo's forward-thinking design exposes some surprising flaws in Windows 8's ability to handle super HD resolutions on a portable form-factor.
What could possibly be bad about a QHD+ 3200 x 1800 display? We'll get to that in good time. For now, let's start at the top.
One final note before we dive in: there aren't a great number of competitors in the super high-resolution ultrabook category. The Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus is one—it sports near-identical specifications to the Yoga 2—and the 13-inch MacBook Pro is another. Both cost 40% to 50% more than this system.
Sleek, modern…and versatile
As the saying goes, you don't fix what isn't broken. In addition to its unprecedented flexibility, the original Yoga's sleek, rubberized chassis was one of the laptop's most remarked-upon attributes. Thinking clearly, Lenovo has changed barely a thing, aesthetically speaking.
Part of the joy of reviewing this new Yoga Pro 2 was putting it in people's hands. Everyone remarked on its nice it look and feel, thanks to a thin profile, sturdy chassis, and that grippy, rubberized surface that we mentioned, which coats the entire device.
Just like last year, the most striking and still unique aspect of the Yoga 2 Pro is the fact that you can flip the screen back 360 degrees until it rests flat against the backside of the keyboard. This permits four operating modes.
Laptop mode is your standard 90-degree angle, with the advantage that the Yoga 2 Pro's flexible hinge allows you to lay the screen completely flat, which is actually quite handy for situations where you're standing up and need access to the keyboard.
The most useful mode next to laptop mode would be tent mode. By setting the tablet on its top and bottom edges, the devices functions like a tablet in a stand. The new rubberized bevel edges earn their keep in this mode. The old Yoga would sometimes slide a bit on slippery surfaces. Not anymore. It's perfect for glancing at a recipe while cooking or setting the Yoga 2 Pro up on cluttered tablet tops.
Stand mode is essentially tent mode, but with a little more sturdiness and support. The key difference is that it has a bigger footprint, so you'll need to clear off more of your desk before touchdown.
A special hinge on the Yoga 2 allows you to fold the screen all the way back for tablet mode. Unfortunately, just like the original Yoga, the 13-inch Yoga 2 Pro is a little too large to use comfortably in tablet mode. Also a repeat of the original: the presence of the keyboard on the backside of said tablet is obstructive and annoying. This said, the notion of playing full-fledged, touch-optimized PC games like Civilization V in this mode is fairly joyous, even if the device is too heavy to hold in your hands.


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While broadband availability has expanded for all parts of the United States, NTIA data has consistently shown that urban areas have greater access to broadband at faster speeds than rural areas. In a new report released today, NTIA and the Commerce Department's Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) delve deeper into the differences between broadband availability in rural and urban areas.
This latest report is part of a series from NTIA that examines broadband availability data in greater detail. One key finding of the new report suggests that, in many cases, the closer a community lies to a central city, the more likely it is to have access to broadband at higher speeds. This is significant because some lower-density communities are located closer to the central city of a metropolitan area and have more access to faster broadband speeds than higher- density communities that are more distant from a central city.
Rural areas can be either within metropolitan areas (exurbs) or outside of metro areas (very rural areas), and while they each have approximately the same share of the total population (more than 9 percent) there is a wide gap in broadband availability between these two types of communities. The report shows that in 2011, 76 percent of residents in exurbs, which generally ring suburbs, had access to basic wireline broadband, defined as advertised speeds of 3 Mbps download and 768 kbps upload. In contrast, 65 percent of very rural residents, who live outside of metropolitan areas, had basic wired service. This disparity between exurban and very rural areas is even greater when it comes to access to much faster broadband service of at least 25 Mpbs. Only 18 percent of very rural residents had access to broadband at this speed compared to nearly 38 percent of exurban residents. There are also significant gaps between exurbs and very rural areas when it comes to access to wireless broadband.
The report also found even among urban areas – central cities, suburbs and small towns - the closer communities were closer to central cities, the more likely they were to have access to faster broadband. For example, while exurbs have fewer people per square mile than small towns, exurban communities are more likely to have access to higher-speed wireless broadband than small towns. And small towns have much lower access to higher-speed broadband than central cities and suburbs. Interestingly, in a number of cases, suburban residents actually have somewhat faster broadband than central cities.
Overall, the country is making progress in expanding access to broadband. But this report's more granular examination of the differences in availability between and within urban and rural areas may help policy makers, community leaders and industry officials to better understand future broadband infrastructure investments.
The report is available at: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2013/broadband-availability-beyond-ruralurban-divide
About the Data: This report uses data from the June 30, 2011 State Broadband Initiative (SBI) dataset and the 2010 Decennial Census, to compare broadband availability across rural and urban communities. NTIA, in collaboration with the FCC, and in partnership with the 50 states, five territories and the District of Columbia, updates the SBI data and publishes the National Broadband Map (NBM) twice a year. Each state, or its designee, collects broadband data by census block or road segment. More information about data collection, verification, and publication is available in the About section of the NBM.


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UFC, Televisa Networks Sign Mexico, Latin America Distribution Deal
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The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Televisa Networks signed an exclusive distribution agreement to air UFC programming in 20 Spanish Speaking countries in Latin America, and have set to launch a 24 hour, 7 day a week UFC channel featuring the world's best mixed martial arts programming including premiere live UFC events. The new subscription network will be available late 2013.
Viewers all across Latin America, except Brazil, will have access to Championship fights and over 35 live events per year as well as the opportunity to experience legendary fights from the UFC, Pride FC, WEC and Strikeforce; equaling more than 20,000 hours of content. The UFC Channel will also feature original programming such as reality series, all broadcast in Spanish.
"The launch of the UFC Channel will be a game changer for our sport and its fans throughout Latin America. We are giving millions of fans across the region complete access to all our live events and programming for the first time," said Lorenzo Fertitta, owner and co-founder of Zuffa LLC, parent entity of the UFC. "UFC is the fastest growing sports organization in history and with the strength of Latin America's premier media group Televisa, the UFC Channel will become the fastest growing sports network in television history," added.
Bruce Boren, General Manager of Televisa Networks said: "The new UFC Channel occupies a coveted position in both sports entertainment and lifestyle ecosystems. Through live fights, UFC classic bouts, Strikeforce, Pride, and other related content for the mixed martial arts fans, this 24/7 channel further strengthens Televisa Networks' offering."
The UFC is growing in popularity at a rate never-before-seen in the professional sports world; its television programming is already available in over 800 million homes in more than 145 countries, in 28 different languages. The partnership between these two leaders -Televisa and the UFC, is in response to fan demand throughout Latin America. Today, in Mexico alone, the UFC fan base exceeds 33.4 Million people.
Before the dedicated UFC Subscription Channel launch, Televisa has the rights to air UFC content in 20 countries in Latin America, excluding Brazil, starting June 2013. Fans can watch UFC programming on TDN in Mexico and Golden Channel in Latin America, including four live events broadcast on Televisa Free-to-Air Channel 5 in Mexico and other Free-to-Air networks in Latin America, annually.


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Illustrations realized while playing tabletop games can data hk to significant fundamental abilities. It is simpler to show a youngster how to share pieces on a tabletop game than the trucks in a sandbox. Kids likewise learn persistence as need might arise to hang tight for their turn. Furthermore, games generally have one champ. Dominating the match fabricates confidence. Losing the game offers youngsters the chance to learn and adjust for the following game play. It is vital to instruct them that despite the fact that they might have lost this time, there will be a later opportunity and they can apply what they have realized. This will allow them a superior opportunity to win. As kids progress in years, they start to figure out how to concentrate and plan. For instance, while playing Chess you want to take each action count. This is a similarly significant illustration throughout everyday life.
Number Four: Your Kids Are Learning Without Even Knowing
At the point when you are so submerged in the pleasure in playing, you don't understand the abilities that you are all acquiring. This is what is the big deal about instructive prepackaged games. You become familiar with the standards, gain proficiency with the game play, you begin playing the game, and afterward you adjust. Up and down your psyche is dynamic and you are thinking and advancing as you attempt to out do your adversary. You get so up to speed in the tomfoolery, you get what it takes effortlessly.
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Eventually, for what reason do we mess around? To have a good time. Instructive prepackaged games are amusing to play with others. Your kids advance by watching you. Try not to get excessively serious. All things being equal, work with participation and energy. Make it fun. Your kids will have some good times and will get familiar with the delight of messing around as a family.
Unwind and partake in the time you have with your loved ones. Take out a tabletop game and make a few recollections.
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Ana Seidel's WebsiteIf you are a poker fan, you could have known about a poker variety known as H.O.R.S.E. poker. This is a variety played at the World Series of Poker. You might be thinking about what is H.O.R.S.E. poker. In this variety of poker, there are five rounds played and each round has an alternate sort of poker. Thus, the principal round is Hold'em trailed by Omaha, Razz, Seven Card Stud High and Seven Card Stud High-Low Eight or Better, or Hi-Lo.
Essentially, every time one full round is finished, the game changes in H.O.R.S.E. poker. Normally in competitions, the game can change either after each round is finished, or after a limited time frame.
To player H.O.R.S.E. poker, you must be an exceptional poker player. If not, you won't keep going extremely lengthy on the table. However at that point, this is valid for any sort of poker.
At the point when you check out at it, H.O.R.S.E. poker isn't exactly a poker game. An organization of poker requires a player to involve various procedures for each round. It's a given that perception is a crucial piece of playing this organization of poker. You need to see how your adversaries play, search for their shortcomings and afterward utilize those shortcomings.
There are numerous internet based gambling clubs that offer H.O.R.S.E. poker as it is quick becoming well known. With regards to learning systems for playing this configuration, it's a given that you initially need to become familiar with the techniques for individual games utilized in H.O.R.S.E. poker. While Hold'em is one of the most famous arrangements of poker, relatively few poker players, particularly amateurs might have played Razz poker. Thus, on the off chance that you are one of those, the time has come to become familiar with certain methodologies of Razz before you take a shot at H.O.R.S.E. poker.
On the off chance that you didn't have the foggiest idea, Razz is a seven card stud. It is played only for its low hand. For fledglings, this rendition of poker can be confounding, yet assuming that you are significant about H.O.R.S.E. poker, then, at that point, you ought to become familiar with the subtleties of this game first prior to endeavoring to play H.O.R.S.E. poker.
Omaha howdy low and Seven Card Stud greetings low are poker varieties where around 50% of the risk goes to the high hand and a portion of the bet to the low hand. In the event that you don't have the foggiest idea about these arrangements, then, at that point, you first need to get to know them.
Generally it has been seen that numerous H.O.R.S.E. poker players come to play this configuration subsequent to dominating Hold'em. This implies that this round would be areas of strength for a for the wide range of various players as well. Thus, don't endeavor to play high stake games at the absolute starting point. It is fitting to at first go for center stakes. Simply ensure that you have the very furthest reaches that you had while playing Hold'em. This way you won't lose that much while playing H.O.R.S.E. poker at first. Yet, remember that there may be players who are great in every one of the varieties utilized in this configuration of poker.
The primary procedure for playing H.O.R.S.E. poker is to guarantee that you can hold your end in each round of the game. On the off chance that you can't do as such, you should rest assured that you will lose cash. That is all there is to it means a lot to initially dominate the procedures and techniques of playing the singular games prior to arriving in a H.O.R.S.E. poker room.
Initially, you must be fairly specific with the hands you are playing. In any case, on the off chance that you choose to enter the pot with the hand you have, you promptly need to embrace a forceful style. To do this, you really want to realize which great hands for each kind of poker game.
On the off chance that you are playing low stakes H.O.R.S.E. poker, you will observe that a few players are great at one configuration, yet can't deal with different games. Typically this will be seen for the Razz and Omaha howdy low adjusts. On the off chance that you are great at these to games, you can without much of a stretch success in these rounds of H.O.R.S.E. poker.
As referenced a few times, the best way to learn methodologies for H.O.R.S.E. poker is by first dominating the techniques for the various varieties of poker utilized in the game play. Assuming you figure out how to dominate these varieties, you will appreciate H.O.R.S.E. poker. An extremely difficult game expects you to think and notice different players. In this way, level up these abilities prior to endeavoring to play H.O.R.S.E. poker.


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Boston Subway Art
A close friend of Jeannine from The Concrete Cottage loved the Z Gallerie subway art and wanted to give it as a gift to her dad. When she asked if Jeannine could recreate it, she had a small list of requests: make it personalized, make it a bit less distressed, and make it for way cheaper than Z Gallerie's! Done, done and done! Jeannnie was able to use her Silhouette, some paint, and a bit of chalk to create a one-of-a-kind gift that nearly brought her friend's dad to tears!


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During a visit to New York City in March 2006, I toured many museums in Manhattan and set out to conceptualize the difference between modern and postmodern art. Two sets of defining characteristics help to differentiate these two great eras in the history of art during the last hundred or so years.
Role of Ideology in Modern Art versus Postmodern Art
First of all, postmodern art departs from modern art in its abandonment of political advocacy for a singular ideology. The modernist avant-garde viewed art as an agent of social change and even helped to shape many of the political movements of the twentieth century. Just look at the way futurism promoted Italian fascism with its aesthetic of the machine. By the nineteen-seventies, the political ideals that fueled modernism had given way to profound disillusionment with abhorrent wars such as Vietnam, ultra-utilitarian architecture, and academic minimalism. Artists began to use artistic styles independently of their original political agenda. This appropriation of historic styles irrespective of their original ideological contexts sets postmodern art apart from modern art. For example, Postmodern Elegy makes liberal reference to cubism, surrealism, and expressionism without adhering to the stylistic purity of modernism or striving to advance any singular ideology. Rather than using style to convey monolithic ideologies, postmodernism undermines the manipulative aspect of ideologies by exposing the artificiality of style.
Role of Interpretation in Postmodern Art versus Modern Art
Each separate movement endeavored, in its turn, to depict reality in terms of a singular fundamental truth that developed during the modernist era. Cubism, by depicting any object as a composite made up of fragmented and discrete views of itself, presented a new way of seeing time that echoed Einstein. Surrealism and abstract expressionism thought to resolve existence in terms of Freud. Social realism took Marx as its foundation. In contrast, postmodernism champions the value of individual and personal interpretations. Again, while Postmodern Elegy integrates elements of cubism, surrealism, and expressionism, the artwork does not try to elucidate the world at large in terms of an authoritative interpretation. On the contrary, Postmodern Elegy or Love and Art, like other postmodern works, requires that viewers add their own interpretations for the work to be meaningful. Rather than assert absolutes, postmodern works of art elicit individual interpretations, personal stories of responsive consciousness.
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Why Low Prices Can Scare Off Customers
Despite all the hype surrounding great deals on Black Friday, it turns out cheaper isn't always better. New research suggests that low prices can backfire for retailers since consumers sometimes see cheap prices as a sign of a cheap product.
However, the researchers also found that consumers also see cheap prices as a sign of a great deal. Which theory consumers follow depends on what shoppers think about when making their decision to buy a product.
"The bottom line of our research is that people can hold two opposing beliefs about a product," said Steve Posavac, the E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Marketing at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. "In the case of price, most people simultaneously believe that low prices mean good value and that low prices mean low quality. But these two beliefs are not equally present in consumers' minds all the time."
"Consumers rarely have complete information and use various strategies to fill the gaps in their knowledge as they consider and choose products," said Posavac and his co-authors Helene Deval, Susan P. Mantel and Frank R. Kardes. "One of these strategies involves using naive theories: informal, common sense, explanations that consumers use to make sense of their environment."
Companies can help to influence how consumers feel about low prices by improving marketing strategies. In the research, when the quality of a product was marketed, consumers looked more favorably upon more expensive products. However, when companies focused on value, a cheap product was rated more highly in the opinion of consumers.
"A company may implement an everyday low-pricing strategy that manages to reduce brand value and alienate consumers if many of them believe that low prices equal low quality," said Posavac. "Over the years, JCPenney customers had become so used to sales that they no longer believed they were getting a good deal. [Companies] design a strategy by assuming that a certain naive theory is going to drive consumer evaluation and choice when, in fact, several naive theories are available to the consumer."
The research is published in the Journal of Consumer Research.
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In case you missed it yesterday, it's time for our annual awards special—and we've saved the big categories for last. Pigeon romance, Star Wars parodies and more still await you in the second half of our 2012 year-end awards celebration!
Brett Seeney: I could talk for hours about my experiences with Journey, and it's not very often I'm able to say that about a game. Of all the multiplayer games I've played I've never experienced anything quite like this one. Even though you're only able to communicate using a flashing symbol, the teamwork you experience with your fellow players is astonishingly good—and this, coupled with the music and beautiful graphics, helped me fall in love with this game. Yes, the game is short and yes, the game is linear, but that still hasn't stopped every playthrough from being unique, and for that I'd suggest Journey to anyone looking for multiplayer adventure on the PS3.
Honorable Mention: Retro City Rampage
Angry Birds Star Wars
Matt Gardner: How does one improve upon the maddeningly addictive gameplay of Angry Birds? The birds themselves have clearly given this a lot of thought, having already tried a movie tie-in (Rio), seasonal themes (spring, summer, winter…and one other one), and even space, but none of those really nailed it, as far as I'm concerned. The original Angry Birds has around 6,200 levels at this point, so they really needed some kind of OOMPH to make everyone drop their current mobile apps and start playing yet another Angry Birds. But what was the key?
…movie tie-ins AND space!!
No. Not really. Nostalgia. That's what Angry Birds Star Wars brings to the table. What better way to reinvent those lovable little birds than combining them with nostalgia-dripping characters from one of the most iconic franchises of all time? Here you have all the simple-to-learn yet difficult-to-master craziness of slingshotting those little birds all over the place, combined with Stormtroopers and Wookies and sound effects that completely overwhelm your nostalgia bone.
They could have stopped there, but no! The new starwarsified birds even have cool new abilities to combat new types of obstacles, including the force (of course), blasters, and even lightsabers. Yes, someone gave a lightsaber to an angry bird. Genius. Absolute genius.
I was going to go into a bit more detail about why this deserves to be the Best Mobile Game of 2012…but instead let me just say that last bit over again: "Yes, someone gave a lightsaber to an angry bird."
This is one game Obi-wan won't have to force-persuade you to download! …but that doesn't mean the option is off the table. Go!
Honorable Mention: Draw Something
Hatoful Boyfriend
Paul Franzen: People are initially drawn to Hatoful Boyfriend thanks to its incredibly Japanese weird premise: It's a visual novel where you play as the only human girl attending a well-respected high school for pigeons—yes, pigeons—where it's your duty to "make connections" (read: make out) with everybirdie you can.
But underneath the game's feathery façade is a meaty story; after you go down a few paths in which you, for example, quit school in search of The Ultimate Pudding, or wind up with your (still living) head in a jar at the wings of a sadistic doctor—you then unlock what is essentially the actual game. You get to learn why the human race is all but extinct, and how pigeons have become the dominant race (and it isn't just "because pigeon high school is a funny idea"). You learn about the disease. The war. The reconciliation. The hope. The forces now working to wipe out humanity forever. Hatoful Boyfriend isn't just a weird game about heathen human-animal relationships (although boy is it that); there's an actual, serious, emotional game here, too—one you'll be sure to flock to if you give it a chance.
Honorable Mention: Borderlands 2
New Super Mario Bros. U
Matt Gardner: The Mario Bros. series is so iconic and so well-loved that I'm pretty sure it could win Best Console Game without anyone even playing it. But, is it name recognition alone that makes this game great? Let's think about what we look for in a perfect console game. Is it a great single-player experience? Sure enough, this game delivers enough goomba-bouncing, fireball-slinging action to keep you entertained for hours on end. Or is it a great multiplayer experience? The great thing about this game is that even SINGLE player is essentially multiplayer! As with other Wii U games, you can happily play it on your handheld peripheral while simultaneously taking up the television, ensuring everyone around has no choice but to experience the awesome!
Jokes aside, this installment of the NewBro series takes multiplayer to a whole new level…of antagonism. The original let you screw with your teammates in all sorts of fun (for me) ways, whether it be refusing to save someone from his bubble tomb, or bouncing on his head as he attempted a lengthy jump, sending yourself to safety and him to his doom. But this new one? Whole new level of mean! Using the comically large Wii U touch pad, you can now mess with others by planting annoying platforms all over the place. Sure, this sounds helpful in some cases, but does anyone ever really use it that way?
If I can make one complaint, however, it's that this game still refuses to get rid of Blue Toad and Yellow Toad. The most half-assed characters in the history of toadstools. "Hmm. We can't use the princess because she's captured, but we need a fourth… Hm. Bowser? No, he's bad. …Bowser's kids? Also bad. … … ……..another Toad? YES, perfect." OK, rant over.
…so! Whether it's the intense single-player action you crave, or a fun-yet-antagonistic multiplayer experience you're after, New Super Mario Bros. U is one game that no console owner should be without. Even if you don't own a Wii U.
Honorable Mention: Mass Effect 3
New Super Mario Bros. 2
Jeff Day: Contrary to popular belief, New Super Mario Bros. 2 isn't all that new. In fact, it's about as original as any zombie movie within the last five years. Mario has to once again rescue Princess Peach from the clutches of Bowser and his seven illegitimate children. Perhaps its popularity and success can be attributed to staying true to the effective formula that Mario fans have enjoyed for over a quarter century, or maybe it's a sign that everything else around it stunk like week-old bagel dust. Nintendo knows how to create a solid platformer better than anyone else, so why rock the boat with something new? That's not to say that everything is stale like that bagel dust: The goal of one million coins is definitely new. Shigeru Miyamoto probably spent many a late night trying to figure out how players could crank out as many coins as possible in each level in their goal to snag all that golden loot.
MIYAMOTO: "Errr…how about a giant armpit that sweats coins?"
IWATA: "You haven't slept in twelve days. Go home."
MIYAMOTO: "What about a tofu lake that hides the Mushroom Kingdom Mint underneath, and the only way to get to the bottom is via a special gelatin rocket pack?"
IWATA: "Now."
Then, in his manic state of insomnia, he went and found a way to get real-life coins: Mario DLC. Miyamoto, you sneaky genius!
Honorable Mention: Persona 4 Golden
Captain Eric Regan: Journey is a game that takes user experience and atmosphere to levels that few games even try to achieve. It takes a much different approach to videogaming, while still very much being a videogame. The game is pretty short and doesn't have a ton of replayablity, but it still managed to take the Best Downloadable Game crown—which really shows you just how spectacular this game is. One of the major things this game does so well is its multiplayer. It uses the multiplayer feature to ENHANCE the gameplay, instead of making it a huge ball of awful terribleness that you avoid at all costs. It completely takes away two of the normal stopgaps to entertaining multiplayer: voice chat and competitiveness. If you don't devote your life to a game, those things are usually a big reason why you wouldn't bother with its multiplayer. In Journey, it is just you and two other players exploring a vast open desert and trying to figure out what the hell to do. Many people did not even realize they were playing with other real people until after their game was done. Now that is some seamless multiplayer gameplay! Journey really is one of the most unique games out there.
Honorable Mention: Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
Alex Jedraszczak
Paul Franzen: You know him as Jeddy—the scooter riding, cat-ear wearing, chai-tea drinking master of The GameCola Podcast. The guy who stays up late playing Space Jam remixes for our readers, who once put together an entire podcast that was nothing but people clearing their throats and coughing. The guy who podcasted for 10 hours straight, live, over the Internet. The Jed-Man.
But what you don't know is how much the guy does behind-the-scenes for us, as well. Over the past year or so, Jeddy has become our go-to guy for anything more technologically complicated than flushing the toilet at GameCola HQ. Remember when we changed our star ratings into beards? That was Jeddy. Remember our new Top Articles page? Remember our chat room? He's the guy who, once and for all, figured out how to get those goddamn vertical lines off of my goddamn Google ads, and he did this all while spearheading what is still GameCola's most popular feature to date. …Also he made me and my wife a scarf built-for-two for Christmas.
Honorable Mentions: Michael Gray, Nathaniel Hoover
Elizabeth "Lizo" Medina-Gray: Thatgamecompany excels as making games that push boundaries and deliver a lot of expressive and emotional content in a relatively short amount of time, and from seemingly simple premises—and their newest offering, Journey, is no exception. You've read three different accounts by now from various GameCola staff members about how great Journey is (i.e., great enough to win four awards from us). Let me just add to that, then, by saying the following: It's all true. If you haven't checked out Journey yet, do so, if only because you're not likely to experience anything like it again (even if you play Journey a second time).
Honorable Mention: The Walking Dead
And that's it for 2012! …Well, for now, anyway. This weekend we'll be counting down the Top 10 Games of 2012 on The GameCola Podcast, but after that—in February—2013 can begin, officially.
Until then, let us know in the comments what your favorite games from the past year were!


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It's all in a night's work for The Edukators, who turn out to be two bored young German guys (hence the "k" in their name, apparently, even though a totally different word is used in the German language) who rail against the corporatization of the world, shoplift occasionally, and express the rage of the proletariat by making wealthy people feel insecure in their homes. Beats wearing a mass-produced Che T-shirt.
Peter (Stipe Erceg) and Jan (Daniel Brühl) case the neighborhoods of the well-to-do in Jan's van. Peter, who once worked installing burglar alarms, has maintained a list of the various systems and which house has what; needless to say, he is quite capable of disabling what he once enabled. The two have never been caught, and they even make the papers sometimes.
But in the tradition of so many male-bonding movies, a woman gets involved and screws everything up. Jule (Julia Jentsch) is Peter's girlfriend, on the verge of eviction and in tremendous debt as a result of a car accident (her fault) that left her owing 94,500 Euros to a businessman named Hardenberg (Burghart Klaussner) and working several horrible customer-service jobs to pay things off. When Peter goes away for the weekend, leaving Jule alone with his roommate Jan, she finds out about their night trips and insists on doing one herself -- to Hardenberg's house. It's an exciting excursion, and the adrenaline rush puts a little illicit romance in the air. The next day, things aren't so good -- Peter has returned, unaware that his girl is now into his best friend, and Jule has somehow left her cell phone at Hardenberg's.
If you're planning to see the movie, stop reading now . . . revealing what happens next may kill the suspense of a key scene, but it's essential to mention in discussing the movie's overall themes.
Still here? Okay, so Jan and Jule, still not letting on about anything to Peter, go back to Hardenberg's house, only to have the man himself return home unexpectedly. He seems to be the complete caricature of yuppie assholery, even down to the white sweater that's tied around his neck as a fashion accessory. He reacts rather badly, to say the least, and so the two "Edukators" knock him out and tie him up, calling Peter up to beg for his help. The decision is made to kidnap Hardenberg and take him to the country, where they will figure out the next move.
The degree to which one sympathizes with the movie's protagonists may depend upon the age of the viewer; Hardenberg himself even trots out that tiresome cliché about people who are under 30 and not liberal having no heart, and people who are over 30 and liberal having no brains. Politics aside, though, viewers who work minimum-wage customer-service jobs, as Jule does, are more likely to feel her pain, while those who once did such work may look back on it as a necessary, character-building first step toward a greater goal. Unlike say, Fight Club, which featured a similar "educational" movement called Project Mayhem, director Hans Weingartner's film does not hedge its bets on the notion of whether simple-minded anarchy is any better than societal conformity -- his heart is with the Edukators, period.
The only moral ambiguity comes from Hardenberg, well-played by Klaussner (who previously played Brühl's father in Good Bye, Lenin!). He seems to be the very model of stiflingly boring capitalism, but he reveals that he was once a student radical too. Or does he? It could be a trick to make his kidnappers more sympathetic. Interestingly enough, the German version of this film has an additional scene at the end that the U.S. cut does not, which implies a different shade of meaning to Hardenberg's motives than one might otherwise conclude.
So yeah, rich people who waste money on frivolous things do kinda suck, and the world might be better if they gave more of their disposable cash to the poor. But is breaking into their houses and rearranging the furniture going to change any of that? Near the film's end, the trio come up with a more radical plan to take on the anaesthetizing effects of TV and pharmaceuticals (though they themselves get drunk and stoned all the time, an irony barely noted). Had the movie dealt with their Plan B, it would have been more thought-provoking. The thoughts raised here are mostly of a technical kind; it's all shot on handheld digital with no artificial lighting, and it looks fine, which should inspire other would-be directors who can't afford lights or tripods. Maybe some of these filmmakers will even give us an edukation.


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A central Illinois man is accused of trying to kill his female roommate for allegedly eating cookies he perhaps coveted.
Allen Hall, 23, of Decatur is charged in Macon County with attempted murder and aggravated domestic battery.
Police allege that Hall turned angry Wednesday when he learned his 49-year-old roommate ate three Chips Ahoy cookies for breakfast and threatened to kill her.
After the roommate at first believed that Hall was joking, the woman told police Hall tried to strangle her in a bathtub. The woman's husband and the landlord ultimately separated the two.
Online court records don't show whether Hall has an attorney. He does not have a listed home telephone number.
Hall remained jailed Sunday in lieu of $75,000 bond.
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Florida's 2014 governor's race may become an expensive popularity contest over who steers the state in the next four years but one little discussed job – the power to appoint – could give the next governor a legacy that could last much longer.
Four members of the seven-member state Supreme Court reach their mandatory retirement age during the next four years and, depending on how the retirements play out, the next governor may have the power to pick their replacements.
The prospect of choosing the men and women who serve as a powerful check on legislative and executive power is so potent it has already become a significant fundraising draw in the governor's race for both Democrat Charlie Crist and Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
But, in addition to the power of the pick, there is palace intrique: Florida law is so unsettled about the exact timing of the retirement that some suggest that three of the justices could wait out the next governor until the last day of his term in January 2019, and it could take a lawsuit to resolve it -- which could be decided by the retiring justices. Our story here.


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It's actually only been five years since Disney's last traditionally animated feature but not since the mid-90s has one of them felt this right. The Princess and the Frog is an entry in the mold of Disney's most enduring, classic, fairytale movies and while its been done before, it never seems to get old. Their obsession with princes and princesses continues and now it's set to inspire a whole new generation of little girls to run around wearing tiaras. But unlike some of their past efforts, this particular iteration comes with a little more substance than the usual, empty dreaming of true love.
Tiana is a New Orleans waitress with dreams, not of finding a prince, but of owning her own business. Since she was a little girl Tiana has wanted to own a restaurant, and to make that dream come true, she works and works hard. She knows that success takes more than simply wishing on a star and so Tiana ignores frivolity to work double shifts and saves the money she'll need to make fantasy reality. And though later in the film she'll learn there's more to life than hard work, the movie never lets her abandon those core values which have her rolling up her sleeves and getting the job done. She never turns the lovesick waif who abandons herself to follow around a man, you won't find her sitting around in a castle waiting for him to come and save her. Tiana finds love on her own terms and makes her dreams come true not with wizards or magic, but with determination and effort.
But there's plenty of magic around her, usually getting in the way. Tiana's plans for success go awry when she bumps into a talking frog who happens to be a prince named Naveen. Naveen recently ran afoul of a dastardly voodoo practitioner called The Shadow Man, a character in the mold of Disney's evil, magical, villains. Desperate to become human again, Naveen mistakes her for a princess, convinces her to kiss him, and everything backfires dooming Tiana to the same froggy fate as Naveen. Together they race through the swamp looking for a way to become human again. Along the way they meet a cast of Cajun accented animal critters including Louis, a jazz playing gator, and Ray, a folksy lightning bug with a family full of bright-butted relatives.
Ray in particular was a genius decision on the part of Princess and the Frog's writers. He could have been a lizard, or a fish, or literally any of the thousands of creatures inhabiting the swamp. But making Ray a lightning bug opens up an amazing range of visual possibilities, as directors Ron Clements and John Musker use Ray and his lightning bug friends to, quite literally, light up the dark in their swampy world. Thousands of tiny firefly lights flit through every scene, lighting up flowers and trees and writing in the sky as the movie's toe-tapping musical numbers drive the plot and lovingly hand-drawn characters whirl across the screen.
The songs and animation are beautiful, the characters are fully realized, and there's a great lesson here should you be looking for a way to deprogram your Twilight-mesmerized daughter. If there's any problem with Princess and the Frog it's only that it doesn't feel as epic as some of Disney's true masterpieces. In a sense it plays out like a small-scale version of movies they've already done. As a villain, for instance, The Shadow Man, though colorful and engaging is really just a less powerful version of Little Mermaid's Ursula or Aladdin's Jafar. Remember that sweeping, frightening, awesome in scale scene from The Little Mermaid where Ursula grabs Ariel with her magic, twisting and shaping her body into human form while the seas and mountains of the ocean boil around her? Princess and the Frog has that scene too and, while it's artfully done, it's on a much smaller scale. Everything about the movie ends up working the same way. It's a more modestly told affair, a simpler tale in a simpler setting with engaging characters that just don't quite have the epic pizzazz of some of the others created by Disney.
But that's not enough to ruin it, only enough to leave Princess and the Frog out of the upper pantheon of Disney's greatest films. It falls somewhere in the middle, between the unforgettable classics like Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King and the forgettable late-nineties entries like Tarzan or Hercules, the movies which signaled the beginning of the end in Disney's dominance. Now though, the wait is over. Disney animation is back. The Princess and the Frog is a warm and infinitely enjoyable movie, one which takes advantage of the artistic beauty of hand-drawn animation to tell the kind of fairytale fantasy that only hand-drawn animation can get right.
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Denver, CO – Vance Worley did it all on Saturday.
The Phillies righty pitched 6 2/3 strong innings and went 2-for-3 at the plate with a clutch two-run double in an 8-5 win over the Colorado Rockies in the middle test of a three-game series at Coors Field.
"I don't mind hitting here," joked Worley. "I don't enjoy pitching here, it's funky. It's hard to breathe and you really have to make sure you get on top of the ball and direct it otherwise it's not going to do anything."
Worley (5-5) allowed two runs on eight hits with two walks and two strikeouts to earn the win. Jonathan Papelbon recorded the final five outs of the game to notch his 19th save of the season.
Carlos Ruiz clubbed a three-run home run and Chase Utley added a pair of RBI singles among his three hits for the Phils, who snapped a five-game losing streak. Juan Pierre went 3-for-3 with a run scored and Shane Victorino contributed two hits, including an RBI triple, in the victory.
Jeremy Guthrie (3-9) absorbed the loss after allowing four runs on seven hits with three strikeouts and two walks. Wilin Rosario crushed a three-run home run and Carlos Gonzalez added an RBI double for the Rockies, who had their brief two-game winning streak snapped.
Philadelphia jumped on Guthrie for four runs in the top of the first and never let the lead slip away. Victorino ripped a one-out double into the right- center field gap and scored two batters later courtesy of a single by Utley. Howard followed with a walk and Ruiz smoked a fastball from Guthrie over the wall in right-center for his 14th long ball of the season.
"You look at four runs and just think the world is coming to an end, but it really came down to one big pitch to Ruiz to one of the best hitters in the league right now," admitted Guthrie about his first inning.
Colorado got on the board with a pair of runs in the third. Josh Rutledge walked to start the frame and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Guthrie. Fowler then drove home the first Rockies run with a single into left and Gonzalez brought home Fowler with a double later in the inning.
Pierre ripped a two-out single in the sixth and stole second before Mike Fontenot was intentionally walked. Worley then slapped a fastball from Rockies pitcher Adam Ottavino the other way to right to bring home Pierre and Fontenot for a 6-2 advantage.
Colorado pulled to within one in the eighth. Tyler Colvin was plunked by Phillies reliever Jake Diekman and Jordan Pacheco walked, which spelled the end of the night for Diekman. Brian Sanches came out of the bullpen and immediately surrendered Rosario's three-run long ball, a towering drive to left-center field.
The Phillies added two insurance runs in the top of the ninth on an RBI triple by Victorino and a run-scoring base hit by Utley.
Game Notes
Victorino's double in first inning was his first extra-base hit since June 13 against the Minnesota Twins...Prior to Worley's two-hit night, the hurler was 0-for-21 at the plate this season...Philadelphia went 5-for-7 with runners in scoring position and stranded five, while Colorado was 3-for-8 with men in scoring position and left seven on base..Sunday's probables are Cole Hamels for Philadelphia against Drew Pomeranz for Colorado.


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I'm currently playing a character in a DnD 3.5 Eberron campaign. During the first few sessions, our characters overcame several obstacles without combat.
Our GM complained that this made it hard for him to adhere the Wealth By Level charts, because when we overcome challenges without looting bodies, we get the XP, but not the gold.
He says it's crucial for our characters to have the gold, and to spend it wisely, lest we become underpowered for the challenges that await us in the future.
What other ways can our GM use give us treasure when we overcome obstacles without fighting? I'm looking for answers that address the question from personal experience.
Here are some examples of situations we have found ourselves in so far.
- We were supposed to fight our way through a complicated maze of sewers to get to this treasure vault we inherited, and instead the warforged used his trusty crowbar to break open a grate and then we took a shortcut past all the monsters.
- That time when we were underground and we ran into a bunch of Gnolls, and they didn't attack, and we didn't attack, and then they just kinda left after a while, because really, who wants to attack adventurers?
- That other time we encountered a couple of goblins in a muck farm (don't ask), and instead of killing them all, we asked for directions because, hey it turns out our hobbit speaks goblin.
- There was that other time where a living spell wandered into the section of the compound we were in, and instead of fighting it, we locked it in a magical vault. Because it was attracted to sound. And vault doors squeak.


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"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1965: On As the World Turns, the Cassens and the Hughes learned that Ellen Lowell (Patricia Bruder) had agreed to marry David Stewart (Henderson Forsythe). When Ellen told Claire (Barbara Berjer), Doug (Nat Polen), and Judge Lowell (William Johnston) about her engagement, they were shocked because they had been certain that she would marry Don Hughes (Peter Brandon). Doug even confronted David, accusing him of taking advantage of Ellen's love for her son, Dan. The Hughes also had been certain that Donald would marry Ellen, until he shared the news of the broken engagement at Grandpa Hughes's (Santos Ortega) birthday celebration. Ultimately, Ellen and David were the only ones who seemed pleased with the turn of events.
1974: On Another World, Lenore Moore (Susan Sullivan) told Steve Frame (George Reinholt) she was convinced that his wife, Alice (Jacqueline Courtney), still loved him.
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1982: Actor James Broderick died at age 55. He played roles in The Secret Storm, The Edge of Night and As the World Turns but was best known for portraying Doug Lawrence in ABC's primetime drama Family.
1982: On The Edge of Night, CEA agent David Cameron (Norman Parker) told told Mike Karr (Forrest Compton) and Derek Mallory (Dennis Parker) that Ian Devereaux (Alan Coates) was an international spy.
1985: On Loving, Curtis Alden (Linden Ashby) was tempted by Ava Rescott (Roya Megnot).
1985: On General Hospital, Robin (Kimberly McCullough) overheard Robert (Tristan Rogers) and Anna (Finola Hughes) saying they were her mother and father.
1988: On As the World Turns, Meg Snyder (Jennifer Ashe) lost her baby.
1990: On General Hospital, after breaking up Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough) and her friends' seance in the catacombs, Felicia Jones (Kristina Wagner) went into labor.
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1990: On Santa Barbara, Ric Castillo (Peter Love) left town.
1993: On General Hospital, after the truck carrying their friend explodes in front of their diner, Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis) left Lucky a message that Frank Smith had found them and to head to Port Charles separately. Luke and Laura left for LA on a freight train; while Lucky caught a plane to Buffalo.
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1996: Actor William Johnstone died at age 88. He played Judge James T. Lowell, Sr. on As the World Turns for over two decades.
1996: On Another World, Vicky Hudson (Jensen Buchanan) hosted a Halloween party. When the lights went out at Vicky's, Kirkland wandered around the attic and met a special friend (Paul Michael Valley's return to the show as Ghost Ryan). Jake McKinnon (Tom Eplin) and Bobby Reno (Robert Kelker-Kelly) battled for a kiss from Vicky as they engaged in an apple-bobbing contest.
1999: As the World Turns debuted a new opening sequence. The new visual sequence was designed by Pittard/Sullivan. The theme music was composed by David Nichtern and Kevin Bents.
2005: On The Bold and the Beautiful, Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper) revealed to Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery) that her father did not trust Stephanie's husband, Eric, hence the trust he set up making Stephanie the sole owner of Forrester Creations. Meanwhile, Eric suspected Stephanie broke into the safe and stole the trust. Later, Stephanie confronted Eric.
2006: On Days of our Lives, Kayla Johnson (Mary Beth Evans) flatlined.
2010: On One Life to Live, Blair (Kassie DePaiva) and the Cramer women reunited with Hope and Starr (Kristen Alderson).
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Pamela Payton-Wright (ex-Addie, One Life to Live; ex-Hazel, Another World) - 76
Robert Foxworth (ex-Chase, Falcon Crest; ex-Bernard, Six Feet Under) - 76
Joanne Dorian (ex-Viki, One Life to Live) - 75
Anna Stuart (ex-Elizabeth, Gotham The Series; ex-Mary, All My Children; ex-Rae, One Life to Live; ex-Donna, Another World; ex-Donna, As the World Turns; ex-Vanessa, Guiding Light; ex-Gina, General Hospital; ex-Toni, The Doctors) - 68
Karen Hensel (ex-Doris, The Young and the Restless) - 68
Mike Hammett (ex-Dennis, Another World; ex-Matthew, Where the Heart Is)
Lauren-Marie Taylor (ex-Stacey, Loving; ex-Eleanor, Ryan's Hope) - 56
Helene Udy (ex-Frannie, As the World Turns) - 55
Eric Mills (ex-Matt, Days of our Lives) - 52
Alla Korot (ex-Allie, All My Children; ex-Jenna, Another World; ex-Stacy, General Hospital: Night Shift) - 47
Toni Collette (ex-Ellen, Hostage) - 45
Laura Moss (ex-Amanda, Another World) - 44
Logan Marshall-Green (ex-Trey, The O.C.) - 41
Matt Jones (ex-Badger, Breaking Badt) - 36
Penn Badgley (ex-Dan, Gossip Girl; ex-Phillip, The Young and the Restless) - 31
Jonathan Selstad (ex-Philip, Days of our Lives) - 23
Thomas Selstad (ex-Philip, Days of our Lives) - 23
Avalon Ragone (ex-Elvis, Days of our Lives) - 21
Dillon Ragone (ex-Elvis, Days of our Lives) - 21
Vincent Ragone (ex-Elvis, Days of our Lives) - 21
Max Burkholder (ex-Max, Parenthood; ex-Jake, Brothers & Sisters) - 20
Actor Michael Zaslow (Roger, Guiding Light; David, One Life to Live; Pete, Love is a Many Splendored Thing) was born 73 years ago today. He died in 1998 at age 54. Watch some classic clips of the Emmy winner's soap work here. Zaslow has appeared in a number of our countdowns including 50 Greatest Actors, 50 Greatest Couples, and 25 Biggest Blunders.
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you would like to submit a soap history entry for this date or a future date, email [email protected].


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- A State educational agency may use funds made available for State use under section 5112(b) only for one or more of the following:
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- (A) allocating funds to local educational agencies;
- (B) planning, supervising, and processing State educational agency funds; and
- (C) monitoring and evaluating programs under this part.
- (2) Support for the planning, design, and initial implementation of charter schools as described in part B.
- (3) Statewide education reform, school improvement programs and technical assistance and direct grants to local educational agencies, which assist such agencies under section 5131.
- (4) Support for the design and implementation of high-quality yearly student assessments.
- (5) Support for implementation of challenging State and local academic achievement standards.
- (6) Support for arrangements that provide for independent analysis to measure and report on school district achievement.
- (7) Support for the program described in section 321 of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into law by section 1(a)(1) of Public Law 106-554).
- (8) Support for programs to assist in the implementation of the policy described in section 9507 which may include payment of reasonable transportation costs and tuition costs for such students.
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Steve Fitch (b.1949) opened his newest show, Western Landmarks and Diesel & Dinosaurs at Robert Koch on Thursday night. The space of the gallery is quite large compared to the rest in the building, which allowed plenty of space for Fitch's large-scale photographs. Immediately, viewers were struck by the color in the large works shown in the front of the gallery, depicting neon signs from desolate roads throughout the US. Instead of cheap advertising, the signs are allowed to shine onto the buildings to which they are attached, creating a glowing presence in an otherwise dark terrain. Each work is named after the specific location which it depicts, allowing the titles to flow seamlessly with the works themselves.
The colorful works in the front of the gallery contrast to the black and white photographs in the back. These photographs are mostly figurative, showing the people who may inhabit the towns hidden by the night in the first pictures. They seem to be from a bygone era of American history including diners and circuses, when people actually had to travel to make connections, and they had to use diesel fuel to do so.
The large space allows for a good overview of Fitch's work. Viewers are allowed to see two different series, which relate to, but are distinct from one another. These works have an essentially American character, and their rural settings are a nice break from the heavily urban-influenced work coming from artists working within the city. I suggest taking a trip to Robert Koch to see the works, and allowing yourself the time to take in the quiet atmosphere of the gallery and the subtle historical quality of the work; you may forget you're in the middle of downtown, if even just for a minute.
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 — Significant gains during winter fighting have wrested key areas from the Taliban and set the stage for July's transition of the first provinces and district centers to Afghan control, an International Security Assistance Force official said today.
Australian army Maj. Gen. Michael Krause, ISAF Joint Command's deputy chief of staff, briefed reporters at the Pentagon live via digital video conference from the command's headquarters in Kabul.
The Joint Command is responsible for operations throughout Afghanistan. Krause serves as senior plans officer with Army Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, commander of ISAF Joint Command.
They're on track for the first group of coalition troops to transition by about the end of July, Krause said.
"And while there is a bit of work to be done," he added, "there's also a bit of actual excitement on behalf of the Afghans, and they're almost ready. We're confident it's going to work."
The first transition "will put about 22 percent of the population, including the capital, Kabul, under Afghan control," Krause said.
One area that will transition is Lashkar Gah, the general said, which is in the middle of a key area in central Helmand that combined forces cleared over the winter and that Afghan security forces now hold and secure.
Krause said other transition areas include Mehtar Lam near Kabul, Mazar‑e Sharif, Herat and the Bamyan province.
Kabul and centers of Taliban movement in Kandahar are among the gains made this winter, the general said. "It is our operational objective to retain that area this year," he added. "We know the Taliban want it back, and we're going to continue working hard to hold it," Krause said. "We believe that by retaining that key area of Kandahar and central Helmand, we'll have an operational-level effect and it will represent a significant achievement."
Despite recent incidents and losses — including Kandahar provincial police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid and northern Afghanistan police chief Gen. Mohammed Daud Daud — Krause said he has confidence and hope for the mission.
"We have to see the complete picture," the general said. "We have to take a longer-term view. And we look for indicators that have an enduring effect."
From that perspective, Krause said, "we feel that we have made real progress. While it's always reversible and is fragile, the momentum is such to suggest to us that what we have can be made enduring and can be made robust."
Today, the general said, coalition forces are living through insurgency attempts to reverse that momentum.
"We've seen suicide attacks in the center of Kabul, in Kandahar, in Herat and Takhar," he said, that have killed civilians, Afghan officials, Afghan soldiers, and police and coalition troops.
"They've grabbed a lot of headlines, but they've grabbed nothing of operational significance," Krause added.
"The combined team retains the operationally significant populated areas it started the year with," the general said. "We are solidifying and hardening the gains, and we're expanding in many areas."
Importantly, he added, "we've seen no weakening or doubt in the minds of the Afghan people. They are amazingly resilient. They've filled the positions of those who were killed and they continue to reject the Taliban."
An increased number of tip-offs about weapons caches is a sign of growing confidence in coalition forces by local Afghans, Krause noted.
During winter operations in the Sangin area, near Musa Qaleh and the Kajaki Dam area in Regional Command Southwest, and in the northern parts of Kandahar toward Arghandab, coalition forces found traditional caching areas and, Krause said, "took a lot of weapons and explosives off the battlefield, far more than we'd seen previously."
"The really important thing for us was not only taking it off the battlefield," the general added, "but the fact that the vast majority were actually handed in or tipped off to us by the locals."
Every day the combined team retains the key areas of Kabul, Kandahar and central Helmand, Krause said, the Afghan army and police get a little stronger and a little more proficient. "Local leaders get better, and opportunities for development emerge and start to flourish, and that all leads to a stable Afghanistan," he added.
The coalition temporary surge of 40,000 troops has created a permanent Afghan surge of 80,000 troops, the general said.
"I work with them daily, and I'm impressed by their courage. I'm impressed with their growing professionalism and indeed their capability," he said. "They do get better every day."
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COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE being urged to honour the unsung young heroes of Moray by nominated them for the first ever British Citizen Youth Awards (BCYA).
BCYA co-founder Mike Faulkner is calling upon insideMoray readers to help them find under-16s from across the region who have positively impacted the community, helped a local charity or undertaken exceptional activities in support of others.
Mike told the community news provider: "There is no age limit for selfless acts of kindness which is why we're launching an award specially designed to honour under-16s.
"Selfless people are the key to making our society and communities the special places that they are, and this includes many unsung heroes who are often responsible for amazing things but don't receive the praise they are due.
"We would like to encourage people to help us give our amazing youngsters the credit they deserve. If you know a young person under the age of 16 who deserves to be recognised for their commitment to a good cause, then put them forward. Tell us who they are. We need the public's help to find our young hidden heroes."
The awards, in association with Specsavers, have attracted attention from big-name supporters and patrons and hope to shine a light on some of the nation's brightest stars of the future.
Dame Mary Perkins, co-founder of Specsavers, says: "The society we live in tomorrow will be shaped by the children of today, which is why championing amazing young role models is so very important.
"The young people that become the recipients of the first British Citizen Youth Awards will, I am sure, inspire other youngsters to emulate their good work and embody the spirit of transparency, integrity, determination and achievement that define these awards.
"Whatever it is that they have done to make a significant impact on society, their community, a charity or other good cause, it will have been with a selflessness and commitment that deserves to be publicly acknowledged. These unsung heroes are the rising stars of the future – let us shine a light on them and celebrate!"
Whether it's someone special who selflessly supports a relative or friend, an inspiring individual who has overcome the odds to make a difference to other people's lives or a community crusader who goes above and beyond for a good cause, nominations will be accepted until 19th September 2016.
Public nominations for BCYA will close on September 19 before being reviewed by the BCYA committee. A list of this year's recipients will be published in October ahead of a private ceremony where the selected nominees will be presented with BCYA titles and medals at The Palace of Westminster on October 18.
The British Citizen Youth Award is in association with world's largest optical retailer, Specsavers and creative communications group, Beattie – who will each have representatives at the awards ceremony.
How to apply
Parents or carers will need to validate the nomination and nominations will need to be seconded by someone not related to the child. To apply just send an email to email@example.com with BCYA in the subject line. Deadline for entries is September 19.